Ban Ki-moon on the steps to achieve peace in Syria, Roger Cohen on the World Cup and a shift in international football, Catherine Rampell on wage hikes at Ikea and Gap, Malcolm Harris on the latest attempt to bury the student debt crisis, Jon Healey on whether America should follow Europe and ask Google to forget.

Sadhbh Walshe on America in the age of the warrior cop, Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court’s cellphone privacy ruling, Sharif Nashashibi on contradictions around Iraq policies, Ramesh Ponnuru on Marco Rubio's reformer transformation, Alison Frankel on the one-year anniversary of Windsor vs. U.S. verdict.

Mark Gilbert on why Luis Suarez should be banned from the World Cup, Donna Ladd on Thad Cochran’s victory in Mississippi, Karen Elliott House on Saudi Arabia and threat of crisis, Michael Lewis and Manish Tripathi on why the Redskins name is bad business, Joshua Green on why John Boehner is still in the game.

Just a day after the news broke that she would walk free from prison, Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for her Christian beliefs, has reportedly been rearrested.

John McTernan on the Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to prison in Egypt, Ana Marie Cox on how Hillary Clinton has to own up to her wealth, Dana Milbank on Darrell Issa’s subpoena mania, Mel Robbins on why George Will is wrong about sexual assault, Joshua Kopstein on why the new Amazon phone is not your friend.

The Iraqi military is facing “psychological collapse” amid desertions and a lack of equipment as the operation from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues to capture towns in Iraq and push its insurgency across borders.

Francisco Goldman on the Mexican government’s fooling of the country’s soccer fans, E.J. Dionne, Jr. on the negativity of the GOP, Michelle Chen on why Starbucks’ barista-students should be wary, Jonathan Chait on the real reason Republicans hate Obamacare, John E. Sununu on why taxi regulations, not Uber, are the problem.

Jonathan Chait on yet another Republican getting prosecuted, Andrew Rossi on how student debt, Becca Heller on why the U.S. shouldn’t abandon those who helped in Iraq, Tony Horwitz on the pitfalls on being a digital best seller, Jonathon Green on the FBI’s attempts to crack slang codes.

E.J. Dionne, Jr. on Dick Cheney's Iraq op-ed, Philip Delves Broughton pines for the way soccer used to be, Emma Brockes doubts on Amazon Fire phone’s, Nelson Lichtenstein on how the South is moving backwards, Jo Anne Bader remembers the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

Anne-Marie Slaughter on why the U.S. can’t ignore Syria if it fights in Iraq, Sean Penn on Haiti, Lola Okolosie and Laurie Penny on the Twitter trolls provoking the digital left, Jill Lawrence on the GOP’s Goldwater moment, Leonid Bershidsky on the post-Millennial Generation Z.